HIS 1543Y
TOPICS IN MATERIAL CULTURE 2003/04

ARTIFACT ANALYSIS USING AN ASSIGNED MODEL

For this assignment, students were given one of the many models that has been developed to closely anlayze artifacts. Each person was required to produce a detailed study of the object(s) on which they chose to focus their larger research paper due in the spring. This step represents one of the most crucial, yet often overlooked, aspect of material culture studies.

LAURA BOWLBY
Personal Compact Mirrors
E. McClung Fleming "Artifact Study: A Proposed Model"(1974)

ANTHONY DUNN
Postcards From the Edge
Jules Prown "Mind in Matter" (1982)


 JENNIFER HAMILTON
Chocolate as Instrument,
Chocolate as Sign:
Jacques Maquet"Objects as Signs, Objects as Instruments," (1993)


TONY HEWER
The Tattoo
Craig Gilborn, “Pop Pedagogy: Looking at the Coke Bottle” (1968)

MARIELA HUERGO
The Dress
Betsy Cullam-Swanand Peter K. Manning. "What Is a T-Shirt? Codes, Chorontypes, and Everyday Objects." (1994)

LEIGH MCGOWAN
Musical Figurines
John Fleming, "The Semiotics of Furniture Form." (1999)

 

JANICE OKADA
The Sicilian Carretto: A Painted Flatbed Cart
Jules David Prown "Style As Evidence" (1980)

PHIL ROSE
Political Buttons and the Making of Meaning
Grant McCraken's "Meaning Manufacture and Movement in the World of Goods" (1988)

RACHEL ROY
Searching for the meaning of Hats
Dupont, Jean Claude. "The Meaning of Objects: The Poker." (1991)

 

 

 

 

 

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TIM WHALLEY
Blackboards
Gregg Finley, "The Gothic Revival and the Victorian Church in New Brunswick: Toward a Strategy for Material Culture Research" (1990)